Uneasy Rhetoric

What is it about people and lists of books that changed their lives?  Do books really change lives? Or did we just happen to be reading them at key moments?  I’m sure in some cases books helped people develop their personal philosophies, find the right job, or get the girl, but in the end, this [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about deep ecology. The concept of “deep ecology” is highly philosophical, but at the application level, in a superficial nutshell, deep ecology is a fundamental shift in behavior and attitudes to bring them to a point where they are more in harmony with the environment.  Shallow ecology is doing [...]

Twitter is the new e-mail.  I don’t mean that it’s the new “killer app” or that it will replace more established modes of communication like talking or writing or texting, as I see it as a hybrid of email and IM. No, Twitter is the new e-mail because of what it does to my psyche.  [...]

Zwahlen Images posted a whole passel of photographs of Sacramento at night over on the Skyscraper Forums.  Check them out.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. A time of heat, a time of grilling, a time of emptying your wallet of its contents for just a little taste of the world’s best salmon.  But if you’re trying to eat locally, like, within a hundred miles of Sacramento, don’t bother reading on. Copper River [...]